We do have standards! Having a Standard Operating Environment (SOE) for AIX has a lot of benefits. It's not just the consistency between images and some sort of version control over what you're rolling out. Using a SOE also saves time. If you build AIX systems...

A Standard Operating Environment LPAR It is so easy to build an AIX LPAR these days, that we can end up with lots of them very quickly. When this happens, or even before it does, it may be worth building one more : a S tandard O perating E nvironment or SOE....